Train-order-holding device.



PATENTED OCT. 27, 1903.

C. J. QUAY. TRAIN ORDER HOLDING DEVICE.

APPLIUATION FILED APR.18, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented October 27, 1903.

CARPENTER J. QUAY, MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

TRAIN-ORDER-HO LDING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,353, dated October27, 1903.

Application filed April 18, 1903. Serial No. 153,293. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARPENTER J. QUAY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State ofPennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements inTrain-Order-Holding Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

My present invention pertains to train-order-holding devices-2 e.,devices for holding train-orders, messages, and other articlesandadapted when held in proper position close to a railway-track to beconveniently taken on a fast-moving train.

The invention is designed more particularly as an improvement upon thedevice constituting the subject-matter of my Letters Patent No. 576,691,dated February 9,

1897; and it consists in the peculiar and advantageous constructionhereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claimsappended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the deviceforming the preferred embodiment of my invention, the same being shownwith a train-order or message clamp'ed thereon. Fig. 2 is a detailsection takenat right angles to Fig. 1 on the broken line 2 2 of saidfigure, and Fig. 3 is a detail sectional perspective view illustrating amodified spring for clamping messages and other articles against thedevice.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in Figs. 1 and 2 of thedrawings, referring to which A is a hoop, which is preferably of wood,because of the lightness of such material, and has a shank B, alsopreferably of wood, extending radially therefrom, and O is a spring forclamping messages, train-orders, and the like against the said shank ofthe hoop. I prefer to connect the hoop and its shank through the mediumof a nail D, having a head disposed within the hoop, and I also preferto utilize said nail in connecting the spring to the hoop, as presentlydescribed. The spring is of wire of suitable caliber and resiliency andcomprises a loop a, which is of a width to bear against the shank B andhas'its bight portion inclined outwardly, as indicated by I), this toform a convenient finger-grasp and to permit of the ready interpositionof messages and the like between the spring and the shank. The ends ofthe said loop a are coiled about the hoop at opposite sides of theshank, as indicated by c, and are wrapped around and secured to the nailD, as indicated by d.

In virtue of the spring O being constructed and arranged as shown anddescribed it will be observed that a message, train-order, or otherarticle that it is desired to put on a moving train may be readilysecured between the spring and the shank and as readily removedtherefrom, and this without liability of such message or article beingcasually displaced and lost incident to the taking of the device on afast-moving train.

In using the device a person after securing the message, train-order, orother article between the spring and shank holds the device by the shankclose to a railway-track, so as to enable the engineer or the conductorof a moving train to pass his arm through the hoop A, and thereby takethe device on the train.

When desired, I may taper the end of the shank B, as indicated by e, andplace said shank in a correspondingly-tapered bifurcation of astationary support such as shown in my aforesaid Letters Patent; also, Imay depend on a device on a locomotive to take through the hoop A, andthereby catch and hold my improved device with the message or articlewhich it carries. I have deemed it unnecessary to illustrate thestationary support and the device on a locomotive, as the same are shownin my aforesaid Letters Patent and form no part of my present invention.

The modified construction (shown in Fig. 3) comprises a hoop A, having ashank B and a spring 0' for clamping messages and other articles againstthe shank. The spring 0 differs from the spring Gin that it is formed ofa strip of flat metal and is connected at one end to the shank throughthe medium of a screw D. The opposite end of said spring 0 is free andis bent outwardly, as indicated by b, to form a convenient finger-graspand permit of the ready interposition of a message between'the springand the shank.

When desired,in lieu of providing the shank of myimproved device withaspring forholding messages and other articles said shank may beprovided with a pocket, bag, or other receptacle, in which messages andother articles to be put aboard a moving train may be placed.

The arrangement of the means for holding messages and other articles onthe shank or handle of the device is materially advantageous, since itleaves the hook entirely open and precludes injury to the arm of aperson on a moving train when such person rnnshis arm through the hoopto take the device on the train.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent,

1. A device for placing messages and articles upon moving trains,comprising a hoop having a shank extending therefrom, and means, on theshank, for holding messages and articles.

2. A device for placing messages and articles upon moving trains,comprising a hoop having a shank extending therefrom, and a spring forclamping messages and other articles against the shank; said springbeing arranged longitudinally on the shank, with one of its endssecured, and its opposite and free end bent outwardly.

3. A device for placing messages and articles upon moving trains,comprising a hoop having a shank extending therefrom, means connectingthe hoop and shank, and a spring of wire, arranged longitudinally on theshank; said spring embodying a loop having its bight portion bent awayfrom the shank, and its ends coiled about the hoop, and secured to themeans connecting the hoop and the shank.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing wit- IIGSSGS.

CARPENTER J. QUAY. Witnesses:

NORMAN O. MCLAUGHLIN, ISAAC E. MYERS.

